Aladdin had won the hearts of the people by his gentle bearing. He was made captain of the Sultan's armies, and won several battles for him, but remained modest and courteous as before, and lived thus in peace and content for several years.
"What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm Good. You call me Tom, will you?"
What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
Come soon. come late, I knew that ere long I should do some deed against the doers of evil who sit in strong castles or loll in soft abbeys and oppress and wrong poor or weaker folk.
...the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man...' Charles Dicken's famous classic Oliver Twist is the tale of the eponymous hero -- an orphaned boy whose life is beset by adversities and trials. Set in the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, the book captures the gritty realities of 19th-century England. Dickens pulls you into the harsh li…
We need to be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done--of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.
In our time is Ernest Hemingway's first collection of short stories. Read on to learn about the soldiers trying to make sense of their post-war lives. Accompany little Nick to the humble dwelling of an Indian as his father delivers a child. Indulge in the lazy afternoon talks of two friends as they gulp down bottles of whisky, or simple relish the adventures of camp life. Hemingway's characters…
It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys... inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours... to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow...' Charles Dickens' Hard Times is a satirical portrayal of the deleterious effect of the Industrial Revolution and Capitalism. Following the lives of its unforgettable charact…
Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.